text:
Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX
Chung Chieh Wang, George Tai Jen Chen
An observational study was performed on a leeside mesolow case that occurred 8 June 1987 during the Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX). The case developed as prevailing west-southwest winds strengthened and interacted with the terrain of Taiwan, with a Froude number (Fr = U/Nh) increasing from below 0.3 to over 0.5. A quasi-stationary mesolow formed to the southeast of Taiwan with no closed circulation through most of its 13-h life stages until passage of the Mei-yu front. A stationary and localized mesovortex also formed about 90 km southwest of the low center, but little adjustment was observed between the mesolow and the vortex. Results suggest that airflow at lower levels was blocked and moved around the terrain of the southern Central Mountain Range (CMR). This led to the formation of low-level jets (LLJs) both to the northwest and southeast of Taiwan. The latter branch provided shear vorticity in the background region of the vortex. Air parcels at higher levels, on the other hand, tended to climb over the mountain and caused precipitation on the windward slope, then subsided at the lee side. The subsidence produced the mesolow through adiabatic warming and drying, which was strongest between 1 and 2 km. Latent heat release at the windward side was estimated to contribute a maximum of about 55%-60% of the total warming. Eventually, as the Mei-yu front moved southward along the eastern coast of Taiwan, the mesolow merged with the front and transformed into a migratory mesocyclone along the front.
Monthly Weather Review
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2
Published - 2002 Nov
Froude number
vorticity
Wang, C. C., & Chen, G. T. J. (2002). Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX. Monthly Weather Review, 130(11), 2572-2592. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2
Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX. / Wang, Chung Chieh; Chen, George Tai Jen.
In: Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 130, No. 11, 11.2002, p. 2572-2592.
Wang, CC & Chen, GTJ 2002, 'Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 130, no. 11, pp. 2572-2592. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2
Wang CC, Chen GTJ. Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX. Monthly Weather Review. 2002 Nov;130(11):2572-2592. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2
Wang, Chung Chieh ; Chen, George Tai Jen. / Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX. In: Monthly Weather Review. 2002 ; Vol. 130, No. 11. pp. 2572-2592.
@article{595d7d7aaa9447518d1c11ac76aa4586,
title = "Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX",
abstract = "An observational study was performed on a leeside mesolow case that occurred 8 June 1987 during the Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX). The case developed as prevailing west-southwest winds strengthened and interacted with the terrain of Taiwan, with a Froude number (Fr = U/Nh) increasing from below 0.3 to over 0.5. A quasi-stationary mesolow formed to the southeast of Taiwan with no closed circulation through most of its 13-h life stages until passage of the Mei-yu front. A stationary and localized mesovortex also formed about 90 km southwest of the low center, but little adjustment was observed between the mesolow and the vortex. Results suggest that airflow at lower levels was blocked and moved around the terrain of the southern Central Mountain Range (CMR). This led to the formation of low-level jets (LLJs) both to the northwest and southeast of Taiwan. The latter branch provided shear vorticity in the background region of the vortex. Air parcels at higher levels, on the other hand, tended to climb over the mountain and caused precipitation on the windward slope, then subsided at the lee side. The subsidence produced the mesolow through adiabatic warming and drying, which was strongest between 1 and 2 km. Latent heat release at the windward side was estimated to contribute a maximum of about 55{\%}-60{\%} of the total warming. Eventually, as the Mei-yu front moved southward along the eastern coast of Taiwan, the mesolow merged with the front and transformed into a migratory mesocyclone along the front.",
author = "Wang, {Chung Chieh} and Chen, {George Tai Jen}",
doi = "10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2",
journal = "Monthly Weather Review",
publisher = "American Meteorological Society",
T1 - Case study of the leeside mesolow and mesocyclone in TAMEX
AU - Wang, Chung Chieh
AU - Chen, George Tai Jen
N2 - An observational study was performed on a leeside mesolow case that occurred 8 June 1987 during the Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX). The case developed as prevailing west-southwest winds strengthened and interacted with the terrain of Taiwan, with a Froude number (Fr = U/Nh) increasing from below 0.3 to over 0.5. A quasi-stationary mesolow formed to the southeast of Taiwan with no closed circulation through most of its 13-h life stages until passage of the Mei-yu front. A stationary and localized mesovortex also formed about 90 km southwest of the low center, but little adjustment was observed between the mesolow and the vortex. Results suggest that airflow at lower levels was blocked and moved around the terrain of the southern Central Mountain Range (CMR). This led to the formation of low-level jets (LLJs) both to the northwest and southeast of Taiwan. The latter branch provided shear vorticity in the background region of the vortex. Air parcels at higher levels, on the other hand, tended to climb over the mountain and caused precipitation on the windward slope, then subsided at the lee side. The subsidence produced the mesolow through adiabatic warming and drying, which was strongest between 1 and 2 km. Latent heat release at the windward side was estimated to contribute a maximum of about 55%-60% of the total warming. Eventually, as the Mei-yu front moved southward along the eastern coast of Taiwan, the mesolow merged with the front and transformed into a migratory mesocyclone along the front.
AB - An observational study was performed on a leeside mesolow case that occurred 8 June 1987 during the Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX). The case developed as prevailing west-southwest winds strengthened and interacted with the terrain of Taiwan, with a Froude number (Fr = U/Nh) increasing from below 0.3 to over 0.5. A quasi-stationary mesolow formed to the southeast of Taiwan with no closed circulation through most of its 13-h life stages until passage of the Mei-yu front. A stationary and localized mesovortex also formed about 90 km southwest of the low center, but little adjustment was observed between the mesolow and the vortex. Results suggest that airflow at lower levels was blocked and moved around the terrain of the southern Central Mountain Range (CMR). This led to the formation of low-level jets (LLJs) both to the northwest and southeast of Taiwan. The latter branch provided shear vorticity in the background region of the vortex. Air parcels at higher levels, on the other hand, tended to climb over the mountain and caused precipitation on the windward slope, then subsided at the lee side. The subsidence produced the mesolow through adiabatic warming and drying, which was strongest between 1 and 2 km. Latent heat release at the windward side was estimated to contribute a maximum of about 55%-60% of the total warming. Eventually, as the Mei-yu front moved southward along the eastern coast of Taiwan, the mesolow merged with the front and transformed into a migratory mesocyclone along the front.
U2 - 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2
JO - Monthly Weather Review
JF - Monthly Weather Review
10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2572:CSOTLM>2.0.CO;2


text:
William McNulty
Co-founder, Team Rubicon
William McNulty is the Vice President of Team Rubicon, the disaster response veteran service organization he co-founded after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Prior to Team Rubicon, McNulty was a civilian intelligence professional in Washington DC. He has worked in support of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council's Iraq Threat Finance Cell, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
McNulty enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve after graduating from college. He graduated as the Honorman in boot camp and completed the School of Infantry as an Anti-Tank Missileman. He later lateral moved to Intelligence.
McNulty received his Bachelors degree in Economics and Communication Studies from the University of Kansas and his Masters degree in Government from The Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of the 2010 Johns Hopkins University Government Service Alumni Award and from 2006 to 2010 served as the Secretary of the Marine Corps Intelligence Association, where he organized collective action on behalf of the membership.
The True Cost of Blind Patriotism: Despair and Veteran Suicide
Think Service, Not Suicide
Remembering By Serving
If You Send a Bull Into a China Shop, Things Will Be Broken
The Growing Divide Between Those Sharing the Sacrifice of War and Those Indifferent to It - Part II
Engaging Our Nation's Greatest Untapped Resource

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


My art auction is coming up this week and the pieces the students have done are incredible.
Below are the collaborative oil pastels. Each student did a square and I then put them together like a puzzle to create the piece.
Students returning from last year seem to remember working on the collaborative piece sometimes even more so than their individual pieces.
The barn is done by one kindergarten class. It is an oil pastel rendition of a piece done by Georgia O'Keefe.
The bird and bamboo is done by a second kindergarten class. It is an oil pastel rendition of a piece done by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige.
The wave is done by the first grade class. It is an oil pastel rendition of a piece done by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige.
The still life is done by the second grade class. It is an oil pastel rendition of a piece done by a Paula Modersohn-Becker.
The cubist fox is done by the 3/4 graders. It is an oil pastel rendition of a piece done by Franz Marc.


On the heels of reading the inspiring book Plastic Free by Beth Terry, our family has decided to enter a plastic recovery program. That's where we figure out how to stop using plastic. Currently, we're in detox.
For years my husband Miguel and I tried to move away from plastic toys, plastic containers and plastic crap, but found it difficult to commit wholeheartedly to going plastic free. Honestly, we didn't commit to anything, and just felt guilty whenever we fell victim to its lure. We'd go through periods of pushing plastic away via garage sales, Craigslist, Goodwill, landfill or consignment store, threatening never to see it again.
Then we invite it in over and over via grocery shopping, attending conferences, accepting well-meaning gifts, buying an iPhone and getting Thai take-out on busy nights. We recycle everything we can, compost, and make home-cooked meals. But the truth is, we're kidding ourselves. According to research, the majority of our plastic (even the recycling) is destined for the dump, China, the ocean and Albatross.
In the "real world" there is no "away" and our good-natured recycling is mostly an illusion. By sending it away from our sight, it doesn't really disappear. There are several organizations working on solutions, but the problem is much bigger, and it begins with consumers. We are contributing to the plastic pollution problem every time we buy anything with plastic, and unfortunately, that's almost everything.
Is there any possibility of finding peace again with good ol' wood, metal, unprocessed food and organic fabrics? Can I live without my Silk Vanilla Creamer? Tea Bags? Cheese? Ziploc bags? I love all that stuff.
I don't know where I was back in 2011 when Plastic Free was published, but sadly I'm very behind. Being a competitive person, I need to catch up to this PF thing ASAP. Fortunately there is a well seasoned support group with people all over the world that are doing this. I'm only sorry it has taken me so long to commit. Fortunately, I've convinced everyone in my house to help. October 2016 marks the beginning of our family's journey toward being plastic free.
Here is a picture of almost all the plastic I used in 2 weeks. The remains of everything plastic destined for the landfill or recycling because I was here for 2 weeks. It may not seem so bad, but there are many people that don't generate this much garbage in 4 years! I can change.
The place to start wherever possible is with "Refuse" - the New "R" in Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Refuse single-use plastic.
Plastic disposal & recycling is a problem of an overwhelming scale. However, our family says "We can do this". And along with many thousands of other plastic-free enthusiasts around the world, we're ALL IN. Little by little, we are eliminating the beast. Believe me, we know it's going to take some time to really get to a "professional" level of plastic free sobriety. It's going to take a lot of self-discipline and forward thinking, and we're so ready for the struggle and adventure.
With the season of gift-giving just around the corner, we've decided to give experiences rather than material gifts. Actually, there has been quite a bit of research done on this topic, and studies show that experiences are more fulfilling and provide more enduring happiness (source).
We've planned a getaway for the 3 days after Christmas to explore a new city, and we've made a list of classes, annual memberships, events and programs we can attend instead of material gifts. With small children, this will be a transition year, so we might not be perfect, but we're going to give it our best shot. We've also created a wishlist of plastic-free containers, utensils and supplies to replace the plastic bags and Tupperware we're using in the kitchen.
Don't be surprised if you get homemade ketchup in your stocking this year Mom.
In her fabulous article "46 Ways to Give Experience instead of Gifts this Year", Wellness Mama describes the benefits of Experiential gift giving like a pro, along with some practical ideas for receiving and giving gifts.
We will not buy new plastic toys for ourselves or for our children, and we invite or families to support us by not buying plastic for us. We walk a fine line between protecting personal convictions on gift giving while not offending those who do not hold the same convictions we do. By establishing boundaries, giving suggestions, and leading by example, we hope to minimize the undo stress around what and what not to give.
What About Stuff We Already Have?
We already have a lot of toys and gadgets that are made of plastic, and our first priority is to use the heck out of them (as long as not for food) and then to slowly give them away responsibly. This includes toys, CDs, polyester, nylon, kits, figurines, electronics and anything stored or wrapped in plastic packaging. The landfill will be our very last option for getting rid of stuff. We will give away and recycle what we can, but most importantly, we will fight the urge to get more stuff we don't really need.
In the spirit of inspiring other kids to think about minimizing plastic, our 7 year old daughter has decided to ask her school to stop using single-use plastics in the lunchroom & elsewhere. She is saddened to see kids taking multiple straws in the lunch line, just to be funny. One-time use plastic cups and silverware being tossed into the garbage daily, and she's ready to raise her hand with alternative ideas.
If this article has inspired you to think about your use of plastics, I encourage you to check out Plastic Free by Beth Terry. Her writing style is comforting and not at all disparaging, which I really appreciated. Everyone is in a unique place in deciding how far they are willing to go, and you have to make the decisions that feel right to you. No doubt you'll find something of value in this book, no matter where you stand on the issues.
What is your biggest challenge with eliminating single-use plastics in your life?


Lost near the top of Finger Rock Trail-at an elevation of 5,000 feet-temperatures plummeted that night. He didn't have a sleeping bag, coat, food or even water, so when the sun went down he fell asleep on a warm boulder.
Rescue teams began scouring the mountain early the next morning. Hasty teams launched in the dark, but others like mine started at daybreak.
Any stop while en-route to your search area requires yelling the lost person's name. Only a mile up the trail someone answered.
He was at the bottom of a steep scree cluttered with loose rubble, boulders begging to rumble down the incline and crumbly cliffs nasty enough that we rarely practiced on it-even in the daytime. The unorthodox route by an inexperienced outdoorsman had evaded detection.
I radioed base camp to tell them the victim was OK and warmed him with a fire and additional clothing. While cooking breakfast I asked how he navigated the slope.
"It was strange," he said. "I woke up and there were snakes with glowing eyes all around me. Then they parted and my older brother came up and said, 'C'mon, I'll get you out of here.'"
"He said I should stay put, he was going to get help."
No one else had seen his brother and he had yet to contact authorities. That meant another search, and the hiker provided a detailed description for the other teams. The glowing reptilian eyes were the product of hypothermia, or so I theorized as we began to walk.
"It's so odd. Why would he do that?" he asked partway down the trail.
"That's what older brothers do," I responded.
"But, why would he come back? He's been dead a long time."
Want to read some more of our spooky campfire stories? They're here and here and here and here and here.


text:
Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system
Rafal Wisniewski, John-Josef Leth, Jakob Gulddahl Rasmussen
Aalborg University Space Center
Institut for Matematiske Fag
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
2 Citationer (Scopus)
In a supermarket refrigeration, the temperature in a display case, surprisingly, influences the temperature in other display cases. This leads to a synchronous operation of all display cases, in which the expansion valves in the display cases turn on and off at exactly the same time. This behavior increases both the energy consumption and the wear of components. Besides this practical importance, from the theoretical point of view, synchronization, likewise stability, Zeno phenomenon, and chaos, is an interesting dynamical phenomenon. The study of synchronization in the supermarket refrigeration systems is the subject matter of this work. For this purpose, we model it as a hybrid system, for which synchronization corresponds to a periodic trajectory. To examine whether it is stable, we transform the hybrid system to a single dynamical system defined on a torus. Consequently, we apply a Poincaré map to determine whether this periodic trajectory is asymptotically stable. To illustrate, this procedure is applied for a refrigeration system with two display-cases.
Journal of Control Theory and Applications
Wisniewski, R., Leth, J-J., & Rasmussen, J. G. (2014). Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system. Journal of Control Theory and Applications, 12(2), 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11768-014-0077-2
Wisniewski, Rafal ; Leth, John-Josef ; Rasmussen, Jakob Gulddahl. / Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system. I: Journal of Control Theory and Applications. 2014 ; Bind 12, Nr. 2. s. 154-162.
@article{54066d4d47e9413b826835b0263eee01,
title = "Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system",
abstract = "In a supermarket refrigeration, the temperature in a display case, surprisingly, influences the temperature in other display cases. This leads to a synchronous operation of all display cases, in which the expansion valves in the display cases turn on and off at exactly the same time. This behavior increases both the energy consumption and the wear of components. Besides this practical importance, from the theoretical point of view, synchronization, likewise stability, Zeno phenomenon, and chaos, is an interesting dynamical phenomenon. The study of synchronization in the supermarket refrigeration systems is the subject matter of this work. For this purpose, we model it as a hybrid system, for which synchronization corresponds to a periodic trajectory. To examine whether it is stable, we transform the hybrid system to a single dynamical system defined on a torus. Consequently, we apply a Poincar{\'e} map to determine whether this periodic trajectory is asymptotically stable. To illustrate, this procedure is applied for a refrigeration system with two display-cases.",
author = "Rafal Wisniewski and John-Josef Leth and Rasmussen, {Jakob Gulddahl}",
journal = "Journal of Control Theory and Applications",
publisher = "Huanan Ligong Daxue",
Wisniewski, R, Leth, J-J & Rasmussen, JG 2014, 'Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system', Journal of Control Theory and Applications, bind 12, nr. 2, s. 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11768-014-0077-2
Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system. / Wisniewski, Rafal; Leth, John-Josef; Rasmussen, Jakob Gulddahl.
I: Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Bind 12, Nr. 2, 2014, s. 154-162.
T1 - Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system
AU - Wisniewski, Rafal
AU - Leth, John-Josef
AU - Rasmussen, Jakob Gulddahl
N2 - In a supermarket refrigeration, the temperature in a display case, surprisingly, influences the temperature in other display cases. This leads to a synchronous operation of all display cases, in which the expansion valves in the display cases turn on and off at exactly the same time. This behavior increases both the energy consumption and the wear of components. Besides this practical importance, from the theoretical point of view, synchronization, likewise stability, Zeno phenomenon, and chaos, is an interesting dynamical phenomenon. The study of synchronization in the supermarket refrigeration systems is the subject matter of this work. For this purpose, we model it as a hybrid system, for which synchronization corresponds to a periodic trajectory. To examine whether it is stable, we transform the hybrid system to a single dynamical system defined on a torus. Consequently, we apply a Poincaré map to determine whether this periodic trajectory is asymptotically stable. To illustrate, this procedure is applied for a refrigeration system with two display-cases.
AB - In a supermarket refrigeration, the temperature in a display case, surprisingly, influences the temperature in other display cases. This leads to a synchronous operation of all display cases, in which the expansion valves in the display cases turn on and off at exactly the same time. This behavior increases both the energy consumption and the wear of components. Besides this practical importance, from the theoretical point of view, synchronization, likewise stability, Zeno phenomenon, and chaos, is an interesting dynamical phenomenon. The study of synchronization in the supermarket refrigeration systems is the subject matter of this work. For this purpose, we model it as a hybrid system, for which synchronization corresponds to a periodic trajectory. To examine whether it is stable, we transform the hybrid system to a single dynamical system defined on a torus. Consequently, we apply a Poincaré map to determine whether this periodic trajectory is asymptotically stable. To illustrate, this procedure is applied for a refrigeration system with two display-cases.
M3 - Journal article
JO - Journal of Control Theory and Applications
JF - Journal of Control Theory and Applications
Wisniewski R, Leth J-J, Rasmussen JG. Analysis of synchronization in a supermarket refrigeration system. Journal of Control Theory and Applications. 2014;12(2):154-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11768-014-0077-2


In the spring of 1704 a young student set out on his horse from London to explore Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Scottish Lowlands. With the proposed Act of Union being very much in the headlines he was curious to see a country that would soon be so closely linked to his own. The author offers detailed comments on his visits to the major cathedrals and churches of eastern England, as well as to Burghley House near Stamford. His youth and naivety are exposed in an encounter with a group of Scottish washerwomen, and he is forced to pass a bleak night on a bare mountain when he becomes utterly lost in rain and mist on his return journey towards Moffat and Lockerbie. The journal of his tour remained in manuscript for over a century, probably surviving a major fire which destroyed the library of Hafod near Aberystwyth. In 1818 it was finally published by William Blackwood of Edinburgh, in an edition of only 100 copies. It has not been reprinted since. This edition reproduces the text printed in 1818 with a modern introduction. Numerous footnotes explain contemporary references and give extracts from the travel journals of other tourists who travelled along the same roads. The editor, Tim Griffiths, has previously published A Place Quite Northward: Visitors to Northumberland 1500-1850 (www.FeedARead.com publishing, 2015).


GYPSEA GIRL is a 31 foot Grady-White Bimini equipped with twin 2016 300hp Yamahas. With a cruising speed of 30 knots, she is fuel efficient and quiet. She has extremely ergonomic seating, so theres always a great place to sit to enjoy the sunshine, the shade, or the beautiful views. GYPSEA GIRL has a tower, which is awesome for jumping off and a great way to see everything the Virgin Islands has to offer.
Explore the Virgin Islands on your own Private Boat! Gypsea Girl accommodates up to 11 passengers. Our trips are completely customizable, so you choose what you want to do. If you're unsure about where to go or what to see, our captains know the area well and will take you out on the best trip of your vacation! All excursions include your Private Boat, Captain, Snorkel Gear, Bluetooth music hook up, Canned beverages (soda, beer, water and ice), lots of extras and good vibes. Gypsea Girl departs from the National Park Dock in St. john and Sapphire Marina in St.Thomas.
For whatever you've got in mind: Snorkeling, exploring, cruising, island hopping, sunning or sightseeing, Big Blue Excursions has you covered!
"Sweet Revenge II" is an elegant Fountaine Pajot 48 crewed catamaran, accommodating up to 10 guests. She is ideal for charters in the beautiful Virgin islands. "Sweet Revenge II" is a luxurious state of the art catamaran, from the renowned yacht builder Fountaine Pajot, she is exceptionally roomy and also comfortable under sail. The ample space on her forward and shaded aft decks are perfect places to relax upon or dine alfresco in the Caribbean breeze. Combining high performance with high quality comfort and luxury, this crewed catamaran is ideal for friends or families to charter around the Caribbean Islands for the day. There are infinite itinerary options, and our goal is to make this the best day of your vacation. We will work with you to fulfill your wants and desires the best we can. Our entire staff are trained and knowledgeable captains and can discuss itinerary options that will be best for the days conditions. Have specific requests? Don't hesitate to ask. We will do everything we can to accommodate you!
Your day! your way! your pace!
All our Captains on the Big Blue team have one mission ... To give you the best day of your vacation! They all are US Coast guard captains, certified with a 100 ton masters license, first aid and safety training, STCW as well as training in diving, water-sports, fishing ... to name a few.
Our captains love their jobs, are knowledgeable about the area & sea life and are good at what they do. A perfect match to carry on the spirit of fun, professionalism and relaxation we always strive for!
Captain Margie grew up sailing the Caribbean with her parents and three sisters sailing from island to island whenever they weren't in school. A true adventurer passionate about sailing, surfing, diving, and snorkeling, it is hard to find Margie not in the water. She feels at home on the ocean and loves showing people the beauties of the Virgin Islands above and below the surface.
Captain Sharp is the son of two marine biologists, so he grew up in, on, around and under the water. He is a 100 ton master captain and has spent countless days out on the frothy brine. There is nothing more exciting to him than sharing his love of the ocean with others!
Captain Mindy fell in love with the ocean when she embarked for a 5 year sailing sabbatical around the Caribbean with hubby Bernd in 2000.
Raised in the North east she traveled the world working in the Showbiz industry for 13 years. Mindy is happy to share these stories with her guests.
*$750 up to 6 people, $100 per person over 6 ($50 children 12 and under) up to 11 people.
There is plenty of dry storage for your personal belongings.
*$1350 for up to 6 people ($125 for each additional person over 6, up to 10 passengers).


text:
// Copyright (c) 2003-2008  INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
// All rights reserved.
//
// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org).
// You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
// General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
// either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
//
// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
//
// $URL$
// $Id$
//
// Author(s)     : Monique Teillaud, Sylvain Pion, Pedro Machado

// Partially supported by the IST Programme of the EU as a Shared-cost
// RTD (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-2000-26473
// (ECG - Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces)
// and a STREP (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-006413
// (ACS -- Algorithms for Complex Shapes)

#ifndef CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_LINE_ARC_2_H
#define CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_LINE_ARC_2_H

#include <CGAL/global_functions_circular_kernel_2.h>
#include <CGAL/Algebraic_kernel_for_circles/internal_functions_on_roots_and_polynomial_1_2_and_2_2.h>
#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel_2/internal_functions_on_line_2.h>
#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel_2/internal_functions_on_line_arc_2.h>
#include <CGAL/Bbox_2.h>
#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel_2/Circular_arc_2.h>
#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel_2/Intersection_traits.h>

namespace CGAL {
namespace internal {

template <class CK >
class Line_arc_2_base
{
public:
  typedef typename CK::FT                        FT;
  typedef typename CK::RT                        RT;
  typedef typename CK::Point_2                   Point_2;
  typedef typename CK::Line_2                    Line_2;
  typedef typename CK::Circle_2                  Circle_2;
  typedef typename CK::Circular_arc_2            Circular_arc_2;
  typedef typename CK::Circular_arc_point_2      Circular_arc_point_2;
  typedef typename CK::Root_of_2                 Root_of_2;
  typedef typename CK::Segment_2                 Segment_2;

private:
  typedef struct bit_field {
    unsigned char begin_less_xy_than_end:2;
  } bit_field;

  // set flags to 0
  // when 1 bit -> 0 = false, 1 = true
  // when 2 bits -> 0 = don_know, 1 = false
  //                              2 = true
  void reset_flags() const {
    flags.begin_less_xy_than_end = 0;
  }

public:
  //typedef typename CGAL::Simple_cartesian<Root_of_2>::Point_2
  //                                             Numeric_point_2;
  typedef typename CK::Root_for_circles_2_2
  Root_for_circles_2_2;

  static
  Circular_arc_point_2
  intersect(const Line_2 & l, const Circle_2 & c, const bool b)
  {

    typedef std::vector<typename CK2_Intersection_traits<CK, Line_2, Circle_2>::type>
      solutions_container;

    solutions_container solutions;
    CGAL::CircularFunctors::intersect_2<CK>
      ( l, c, std::back_inserter(solutions) );
    typename solutions_container::iterator it = solutions.begin();

    CGAL_kernel_precondition( it != solutions.end() );
    // the circles intersect

    const std::pair<typename CK::Circular_arc_point_2, unsigned>*
      result = CGAL::internal::intersect_get<std::pair<typename CK::Circular_arc_point_2, unsigned> >(*it);
    // get must have succeeded
    if ( result->second == 2 ) // double solution
      return result->first;
    if (b) return result->first;
    ++it;
    result = CGAL::internal::intersect_get<std::pair<typename CK::Circular_arc_point_2, unsigned> >(*it);
    return result->first;
  }

public:
  Line_arc_2_base()
#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
    : id_of_my_supporting_line(Circular_arc_2::circle_table.get_new_id())
#endif
  {}

  Line_arc_2_base(const Line_2 &support,
                  const Circle_2 &c1,const bool b1,
                  const Circle_2 &c2,const bool b2)
    :_support(support)
#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
    ,id_of_my_supporting_line(Circular_arc_2::circle_table.get_new_id())
#endif
  {
    _begin = intersect(support, c1, b1);
    _end = intersect(support, c2, b2);
    reset_flags();
  }

  Line_arc_2_base(const Line_2 &support,
                  const Line_2 &l1,
                  const Line_2 &l2)
    :_support(support)
#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
    ,id_of_my_supporting_line(Circular_arc_2::circle_table.get_new_id())
#endif
  {
    CGAL_kernel_precondition(do_intersect(support, l1));
    CGAL_kernel_precondition(do_intersect(support, l2));
    //typedef typename Root_of_2::RT RT_2;
    typename Intersection_traits<CK, Line_2, Line_2>::result_type
      v = CGAL::internal::intersection(support, l1, CK());
    CGAL_assertion(v);

    const Point_2 *pt = CGAL::internal::intersect_get<Point_2>(v);
    CGAL_assertion(pt != NULL);
    _begin = Circular_arc_point_2(*pt);
    v = CGAL::internal::intersection(support, l2, CK());
    const Point_2 *pt2 = CGAL::internal::intersect_get<Point_2>(v);
    CGAL_assertion(pt2 != NULL);
    _end = Circular_arc_point_2(*pt2);
    reset_flags();
  }

  Line_arc_2_base(const Line_2 &support,
                  const Circular_arc_point_2 &p1,
                  const Circular_arc_point_2 &p2)
    :_support(support)
#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
    ,id_of_my_supporting_line(Circular_arc_2::circle_table.get_new_id())
#endif
  {
    //Verifier si p1 et p2 sont sur la line
    _begin = p1;
    _end = p2;
    reset_flags();
  }

  Line_arc_2_base(const Segment_2 &s)
    :_support(s.supporting_line())
#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
    ,id_of_my_supporting_line(Circular_arc_2::circle_table.get_new_id())
#endif
  {
    _begin = Circular_arc_point_2(s.source());
    _end = Circular_arc_point_2(s.target());
    reset_flags();
  }

  Line_arc_2_base(const Point_2 &p1,
                  const Point_2 &p2)
#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
    : id_of_my_supporting_line(Circular_arc_2::circle_table.get_new_id())
#endif
  {
    _support = Line_2(p1, p2);
    _begin = Circular_arc_point_2(p1);
    _end = Circular_arc_point_2(p2);
    reset_flags();
  }

private:

  Line_2 _support;
  Circular_arc_point_2 _begin, _end;
  mutable bit_field flags;

#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
  mutable unsigned int id_of_my_supporting_line;

  unsigned int line_number() const {
    return id_of_my_supporting_line;
  }

  void set_line_number(unsigned int i) const {
    id_of_my_supporting_line = i;
  }
#endif

private: //(some useful functions)

  bool begin_less_xy_than_end() const {
    if(flags.begin_less_xy_than_end == 0) {
      if(compare_xy(_begin, _end) < 0)
        flags.begin_less_xy_than_end = 2;
      else flags.begin_less_xy_than_end = 1;
    } return flags.begin_less_xy_than_end == 2;
  }

public :

#ifdef CGAL_INTERSECTION_MAP_FOR_SUPPORTING_CIRCLES
  template < class T >
  static bool find_intersection_circle_line(
                                            const Circular_arc_2& c,
                                            const Line_arc_2_base& l,
                                            T& res) {
    if(c.id_of_my_supporting_circle == 0) return false;
    return Circular_arc_2::circle_table.template find<T>(c.id_of_my_supporting_circle,
                                                         l.id_of_my_supporting_line,
                                                         res);
  }

  template < class T >
  static void put_intersection_circle_line(const Circular_arc_2& c,
                                           const Line_arc_2_base& l,
                                           const T& res) {
    Circular_arc_2::circle_table.template put<T>(c.circle_number(),
                                                 l.line_number(),
                                                 res);
  }
#endif

  const Line_2 & supporting_line() const
  {
    return _support;
  }

  const Circular_arc_point_2 & left() const
  {
    return begin_less_xy_than_end() ? _begin : _end;
  }

  const Circular_arc_point_2 & right() const
  {
    return begin_less_xy_than_end() ? _end : _begin;
  }

  const Circular_arc_point_2 & source() const
  {
    return _begin;
  }

  const Circular_arc_point_2 & target() const
  {
    return _end;
  }

  bool is_vertical() const
  {
    return supporting_line().is_vertical();
  }

  CGAL::Bbox_2 bbox() const
  {
    return _begin.bbox() + _end.bbox();
  }

}; // end class Line_arc_2_base

template <class CB, typename Base_CK>
class Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base : public Base_CK::Line_arc_2 {
  typedef Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base<CB,Base_CK> Self;
  typedef typename Base_CK::Line_arc_2 P_arc;

public:

  typedef typename CB::Point_2 Point_2;
  typedef typename CB::Line_2 Line_2;
  typedef typename CB::Segment_2 Segment_2;
  typedef typename CB::Circle_2 Circle_2;
  typedef typename CB::Circular_arc_point_2 Circular_arc_point_2;

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base() : P_arc(), bb(NULL) {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const P_arc& arc) : P_arc(arc), bb(NULL) {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const Line_2 &support,
                                const Circle_2 &l1, const bool b_l1,
                                const Circle_2 &l2, const bool b_l2)
    : P_arc(support,l1,b_l1,l2,b_l2), bb(NULL)
  {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const Line_2 &support,
                                const Line_2 &l1,
                                const Line_2 &l2)
    : P_arc(support,l1,l2), bb(NULL)
  {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const Line_2 &support,
                                const Circular_arc_point_2 &begin,
                                const Circular_arc_point_2 &end)
    : P_arc(support, begin, end) , bb(NULL)
  {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const Segment_2 &s)
    : P_arc(s) , bb(NULL)
  {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const Point_2 &p1,
                                const Point_2 &p2)
    : P_arc(p1,p2) , bb(NULL)
  {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base(const Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base &c)
    : P_arc(c), bb(c.bb ? new Bbox_2(*(c.bb)) : NULL)
  {}

  Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base& operator=(const Self& c)
  {
    if(this != &c)
    {
      this->P_arc::operator=(c);

      if (bb != NULL){
        delete bb;
      }
      bb = c.bb ? new Bbox_2(*(c.bb)) : NULL;
    }
    return *this;
  }

  ~Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base() { if(bb) delete bb; }

  Bbox_2 bbox() const
  {
    if(bb==NULL)
      bb=new Bbox_2(P_arc::bbox());
    return *bb;
  }

  bool has_no_bbox() const
  { return (bb==NULL);}

private:

  mutable Bbox_2 *bb;

}; // end class Filtered_bbox_line_arc_2_base

/* template < typename CK > */
/*     std::ostream & */
/*     operator<<(std::ostream & os, const Line_arc_2_base<CK> &a) */
/*     { */

/*       return os << a.supporting_line() << " " */
/* 		<< a.source() << " " */
/* 		<< a.target() << " "; */
/*     } */

/*   template < typename CK > */
/*   std::istream & */
/*   operator>>(std::istream & is, Line_arc_2_base<CK> &a) */
/*   { */
/*     typename CK::Line_2 l; */
/*     typename CK::Circular_arc_point_2 p1; */
/*     typename CK::Circular_arc_point_2 p2; */
/*     is >> l >> p1 >> p2 ; */
/*     if (is) */
/*       a = Line_arc_2_base<CK>(l, p1, p2); */
/*     return is; */
/*   } */

} // namespace internal
} // namespace CGAL

#endif // CGAL_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_LINE_ARC_2_H

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 release, the sixth album from the acclaimed Indie Rock band. Formed in 1999, the Ohio raised, Brooklyn based band consists of vocalist Matt Berninger fronting two pairs of brothers: Aaron (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). The band's previous 4AD release, High Violet (May 2010), was met with critical praise.


Created in 1997 by the family ATTOUN, KLYGROUPE, integrated into the British group KLYTOON Limited, is a French company of import and trade of food products, mainly green teas, dried fruits and spices. We enhance regularly our catalog by adding new general store goods like ventilators, domestic appliances or other depending on your requests.
According to the opportunities and the seasons, building on their expertise, our buyers analyze and select the best products from the best origins.
KLY GROUPE recognized Importer of Chinese green tea sells a wide range of green tea and covers any type s of market with various teas in leaves and teas in bags, pieces of teas and our accessories dedicated to the art of tea.
WHOLE RANGE TEAS ARE TRADEMARKS AND TRADEMARKS PROTECTED. BEWARE OF FAKES.
Appears to be dry but so rich inside …Dried fruits are treasures of energy collected worldwide. Thanks to their strong concentration in fibers and minerals, they bring the necessary tonus. Sweet foods, (apricot, fig, date, prune) and oleaginous (almond, walnut, hazelnut…) offer a perfect combination. The packagings are developed under modified-atmosphere allowing a better preservation.
It will allow you to get a wide range of roasting dried fruits (Pistachios, cashew nuts, hazelnuts, peanuts), salted by ourselves, providing to our customers an incomparable taste and quality.
The packaging is produced under a modified atmosphere in order to enable better conservation.
KLY GROUPS propose these varied fruits, alone or in classic mixture, on request according to the quantities.
The goods are developed in modified-atmosphere packaging allowing a better preservation.
A spice is unique and has its own identity. That is why KLY GROUPS importer of numerous spices worldwide proposes you a range of aromas, smells, colors and different origins.
KLY GROUPE offers a varied range of products for the ethnic cuisine to suit the tastes of our customers. KLY GROUPE also manufactures depending on market and the demand of foodstuffs such as yeast, peanut paste, Canned tuna, Harissa, Mastic Gum, candies, etc..
Thanks to its expertise and professional team, KLY GROUPE considers any specific request of its partners to achieve their best project.


On Friday, a stabbing attack took place in Melbourne, Australia leaving two people injured and one dead. Sputnik looks into some such high-profile attacks that have taken place in the 'land down under' over the last few years.
In February 2018, Bangladeshi national Momena Shoma was arrested after she stabbed a 56-year-old man in the neck while he was asleep at his Callistemon Rise home in Mill Park near Melbourne.
Shoma, who was charged with engaging in a terrorist act, told police that she had travelled to Australia with the sole intention of killing someone on behalf of Daesh*.
According to her, she wanted to "trigger the West" and attacked Roger Singaravelu with a kitchen knife because he was "vulnerable" and "an easy target". Singaravelu suffered damage to his spine and hand as a result of the knife attack.
On April 7, 2017, a 15 year-old-boy and a 16 year-old-boy entered a service station in the town of Queanbeyan in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they stabbed several people with a steak knife, killing 29-year-old Zeeshan Akbar, an employee of Pakistani descent, and injuring three other men.
The teenagers wrote the letters "I S" in blood on the walls of the service station, with police alleging that the letters were written in the victim's blood, given DNA evidence. The pair were arrested after a second stabbing in the street in Queanbeyan following a police chase.
The 16-year-old's mother told police that her son could have been radicalised ahead of the stabbing and that he sympathised with Daesh, posting relevant messages on his Facebook page.
On September 10, 2016, 22-year-old Ihsas Khanman stabbed his 57-year-old neighbour Wayne Greenhalgh, who was walking his dog in Minto, a suburb of Sydney.
When attacking the older man, Khanman allegedly shouted "someone is going to die today". The perpetrator subsequently attempted to attack police, but was arrested shortly afterwards.
Khanman was charged with an attempted murder as police said that they were already aware that Khan had "strong extremist beliefs inspired by Daesh." Greenhalgh, who suffered serious injuries in the knife attack, was taken to hospital in a critical condition but managed to survive.
On September 23, 2014, 18-year-old Abdul Numan Haider was shot dead after he attacked a Victoria Police officer and an Australian Federal Police officer with a knife outside the Victoria Police Endeavour Hills police station in Endeavour Hills, a suburb of Melbourne.
The federal government said that they had shot Haider "in self-defence" and that the victim was a known terrorism suspect.
Earlier, the two counter-terrorism officers who were stabbed by Haider, investigated the teenager over allegations he had recently unfurled a Daesh flag in a suburban shopping centre and made several inflammatory remarks about the Australian Federal Police on social media.


During a visit to Home Depot for other purposes, I spotted a BrassCraft Zip-It. Seeing that I had a slow bathroom sink, I was willing to give the product a test, especially since it only cost $2.50.
First, I filled the sink with 3 cups of water, measuring carefully with that precise, scientific instrument otherwise known as a Legoland cup.
Three Legoland cups of water yields about this much water.
Next, I measured how long it took for all the water to drain from the sink. A disappointing 24 seconds, per iPhone.
I could insert the Zip-It really easily down the drain, but pulling it back up took some wiggling. I think all the notches were catching onto parts of the drain. The Zip-It didn't pull up a hairball or any large masses, but it did pull up a lot of black gunk.
After wiping away all the black gunk and rinsing the sink clean, I refilled the sink with 3 cups of water. The time to drain was a much-improved 9 seconds.


text:
Cost of Buying Out Flood-Prone Homes: $5B and Rising
By David A. Lieb | May 28, 2019
About the photo: This June 14, 2008 file photo shows floodwaters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Weeks after the latest massive floods in the Midwest, voluntary buyouts are again being considered in at least five states –Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
MOSBY, Mo. — The residents of this small riverside town have become accustomed to watching floods swamp their streets, transform their homes into islands and ruin their floors and furniture.
Elmer Sullivan has replaced his couch, bed and television. He's torn up water-buckled floorboards. And he put a picket fence against the front of his house to cover up a gap left when waters washed out part of the stone foundation.
"I just don't want to mess with it anymore. I'm 83 years old and I'm tired of it, and I just want to get out of it," Sullivan said.
Finally fed up, Sullivan and nearly half of the homeowners in Mosby signed up in 2016 for a program in which the government would buy and then demolish their properties rather than paying to rebuild them over and over. They're still waiting for offers, joining thousands of others across the country in a slow-moving line to escape from flood-prone homes.
Patience is wearing thin in Mosby, a town of fewer than 200 people with a core of lifelong residents and some younger newcomers drawn by the cheap prices of its modest wood-frame homes. Residents watched nervously this past week as high waters again threatened the town.
"It really is frustrating, because here we are, we're coming through a wet season. There's a chance that we could possibly flood, and we're still waiting," said Jason Stooksbury, an alderman who oversees the town's efforts to curb flooding. "It's not a good situation, but what are you going to do _ it's the government process."
Over the past three decades, federal and local governments have poured more than $5 billion into buying tens of thousands of vulnerable properties across the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The AP analysis shows those buyouts have been getting more expensive, with many of the costliest coming in the last decade after strong storms pounded heavily populated coastal states such as Texas, New York and New Jersey. This year's record flooding in the Midwest could add even more buyouts to the queue.
The purchases are happening as the climate changes. Along rivers and sea coasts, some homes that were once considered at little risk are now endangered due to water that is climbing higher and surging farther inland than historic patterns predicted.
Regardless of the risks, the buyouts are voluntary. Homeowners can renew taxpayer-subsidized flood insurance policies indefinitely.
With more extreme weather events, flooding "is going to become more and more of an issue, and there will be more and more properties that are at risk of total loss or near total loss," said Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which has jurisdiction over FEMA. "Then the question is: Are we just going to keep selling them insurance and building in the same place?"
DeFazio wants to expand and revamp a buyout process that he describes as inefficient and irrational. He's backing a proposed pilot project that would give homeowners a break on their flood insurance premiums, as long as they agree in advance to a buyout that would turn their property into green space if their homes are substantially damaged by a flood.
Buyout programs rely on federal money distributed through the states, but they generally are carried out by cities and counties that end up owning the properties.
Most buyouts are initiated after disasters, but Congress has become more proactive. Appropriations for FEMA's Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program _ which funds buyouts and other precautions, such as elevating homes before disasters strike — have risen from $25 million in 2015 to $250 million this year.
A recent study for the National Institute of Building Sciences found that society as a whole saves $7 in avoided costs for every $1 spent through federally funded grants to acquire or demolish flood-prone buildings. Yet it's harder to gauge the benefits for the individuals who move.
After Superstorm Sandy pummeled New Jersey and New York in 2012, Duke University graduate school student Devon McGhee researched what happened to hundreds of Staten Island homeowners who took buyouts. She found that all but two of the 323 homeowners she tracked relocated to areas with higher poverty levels. Three-quarters remained on Staten Island, and about one-fifth moved to homes that still were exposed to coastal flooding hazards.
"When people take the buyouts, sometimes the money they are given on their home is not enough to buy a comparable home in a lower-risk area," said McGhee, who now works as a coastal management specialist for an engineering and consulting firm.
The prolonged buyout process also can take an emotional toll on people who are uprooted.
"Maybe they find a home, and it's a good home, but it's not their home where their kids grew up and had birthday parties and that sort of thing. There are these losses that occur in that transition process that can have implications for years," said Sherri Brokopp Binder, an Allentown, Pennsylvania-based consultant who researches disaster buyouts.
Multiple layers of government bureaucracy can slow the buyout process. So can the typical hiccups that come with property sales.
In Kingfisher, Oklahoma, officials are still working to complete a buyout prompted by Tropical Storm Erin in 2007, even as the city has found itself inundated by flood waters again this week.
The city initiated a buyout in 2010, then received additional money to buy more homes about five years later. It's purchased more than 80 so far, with about 10 more to go, said Annie Vest, a former Oklahoma state hazard mitigation officer who now works for an engineering firm administering Kingfisher's grant.
The process is just getting started in some Texas communities swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Officials in Liberty County, northeast of Houston, held a meeting with residents last month to discuss a $6.7 million HUD grant to buy out homes near the Trinity River. The county still must get appraisals of the homes, conduct asbestos inspections and take bids for a demolition contractor.
Local officials hope to start taking buyout applications by the end of the year, said David Douglas, the Liberty County engineering administrator and flood plain manager.
Formal discussions of a federally funded buyout likely are a long way off in Hamburg, Iowa, which was inundated in March by a breach of a Missouri River levee.
But local officials aren't waiting around. Mayor Cathy Crain said they are looking into the potential for a private developer to relocate some houses and to acquire higher land where new homes and businesses could be built.
Relocating to higher ground isn't likely in Mosby, unless residents are willing to go elsewhere. The entire core of the town is in a floodway, which means that new development is limited.
Located just northeast of Kansas City, Mosby began as a railroad town in 1887 and expanded with coal mines in the early 20th century. At one time, it had a school, bank, grocery store and lumber yard. Those are gone now, and the trains merely pass by. In 2015, financial strains led the town to eliminate its small police force.
Mosby experienced some of its worst flooding that same year, with three floods in less than six weeks. The next year, city officials began pursuing the buyouts, and more than 40 homeowners signed up. They've been in limbo ever since. Local officials sought nearly $3 million in funding, submitted a revised application, obtained property appraisals and conducted environmental reviews.
Some residents have been scouting for new housing. Others are waiting to see the bids, which are expected this summer.
Sullivan hopes to get $28,000 for his home. He would move near his sister in southeastern Missouri, but he's getting impatient.
"I'm just about ready to tell them, `Take it and shove it,"' he said.
Sitting on the concrete porch of the white wooden house where she's lived for the past 36 years, Tammy Kilgore explains that "everybody's just really on edge and ready to leave."
"The floods, I'm tired of dealing with them, I really am," she said. "I think they should have bought out this town a long time ago."
Kansas Patients Can Now Win Big in Doctor Malpractice Suits
Tropical Storm Barry in Gulf of Mexico Barrels Toward Louisiana
California's Fire 'Bailout' for PG&E, Edison Clears Hurdle
Mobile Home Residents Hit With Soaring Rent After Hurricanes
Categories: Midwest NewsTopics: coastal flooding hazards, Federal Emergency Management Agency, flood plain, flood-prone, flooding, Hurricane Harvey, National Institute of Building Sciences, Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program
Private Insurance Losses from Tropical Storm Barry to Add Up to Nearly $300 Million
Lessons from Fintech Applied to Insurtech
Alphabet Unveils App to Provide Air-Traffic Control for Drones


The solas are five Latin phrases that summarize our theological convictions about the essentials of Christianity.
Every word of the 66 books of the Bible is divinely inspired. The Holy Spirit inspired the writing of Scripture, illuminates the meaning and understanding of Scripture, and empowers obedience to Scripture.
The Scriptures alone are our only ultimate and inerrant authority for faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16, 17; Matthew 4:4). This doesn't mean that the Bible is the only place where truth is found, but it does mean that everything else we learn about God and his world, and all other authorities, are subordinate to the Scriptures. The Scriptures are the sole necessary and sufficient source of our theology.
We are saved solely through faith in Jesus Christ because of God's grace and Christ's merit alone. We are not saved by our merits or declared righteous by our good works. God grants salvation not because of the good things we do, and despite our sin. As humans, we inherited (from our ancestor Adam) a nature that is enslaved to sin. Because of our nature, we are naturally enemies of God and lovers of evil.
God graciously preserves us and keeps us. When we are faithless toward him, he is still faithful (2 Timothy 2:13). We can only stand before God by his grace as he mercifully attributes to us the righteousness of Jesus Christ and attributes to him the consequences of our sins (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus' life of perfect righteousness is counted as ours, and our records of sin and failure were counted to Jesus when he died on the cross.
Sola fide and sola gratia express the teaching of Ephesians 2:8, 9: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
God has given the ultimate revelation of himself to us by sending Jesus Christ, the Son of God (John 1:14; Hebrews 1:2, 3). Only through God's gracious self-revelation in Jesus do we come to a saving and transforming knowledge of God. Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and humanity (1 Timothy 2:5). Because God is holy and all humans are sinful and sinners, we need a Savior who mediates between us and God. Neither religious rituals nor good works mediate between us and God (Romans 4:5). There is no other name by which a person can be saved other than the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12). Jesus intercedes on our behalf, and his sacrificial death alone can atone for sin.
Glory belongs to God alone. God's glory is the central motivation for salvation, not improving the lives of people—though that is a wonderful by-product. God is not a means to an end—he is the means and the end.
The goal of all of life is to give glory to God alone: "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31).


There are days when we wake up not knowing how to start the day. It can be hard to know where to begin, especially when you are an entrepreneur and working on your own. Even though you have a master plan, a to-do list, and goals, getting up in the morning can sometimes be the most difficult task of the day. Working from home or on the road can be very lonely and it takes a lot of motivation and effort when you're just accountable to yourself.
If to-do and goal lists don't work on certain days, how else can you get yourself going?
When I need to overcome the fear of continuing with my tasks, one of my favorite things to do is work from a co-working space. Human beings like to socialize, so working together or working next to other people is a great way of sparking up your motivation and creative flow. It can help to see others working, and you get to have conversations with others, which can be quite helpful in times of self-doubt or when there's a lack of inspiration.
Turning off social media, your phone, and email, and blocking Google can also be very helpful. Not being able to distract yourself from the tasks that need to be done can be a lifesaver, or at least a work saver!
Sometimes it can be also as simple as getting up and cleaning your workspace. Sort out your paperwork, organize your books and materials, sweep or vacuum, and make it a nice place to spend time. Experiencing the feeling of achievement even with such simple things can have a much better effect on your mood and workflow than forcing yourself to sit in front of the computer and do nothing. Starting with the daily tasks that need to be done anyway can have quite a big psychological effect on our emotional wellbeing–and who doesn't love the feeling of having achieved something? Don't underestimate small tasks such as washing dishes and doing laundry.
Going for a walk and getting fresh air doesn't just help to get new oxygen into your bloodstream, it can also help you come up with new ideas and find inspiration in order to continue with your work. Generally, it is a great idea to make sure that you have regular breaks and get some sunlight and fresh air, even if for just a few minutes.
Another idea is to break down some of your bigger tasks to smaller pieces so you are able to keep taking steps towards your goal without feeling overwhelmed. And while social media might be a big part of your business, it can sometimes be quite helpful and healthy for you to take a break. Remember to schedule posts to go live during your break, though. You can use that time to work toward other tasks instead. It's about turning your work into a joyful and pleasant experience with positive achievements that help you to create surroundings that makes it easier to go through the less pleasant moments of being an entrepreneur and working for yourself.
Just remember that these are just a couple of lifesavers for how to stay motivated. Any ou might already have one that is absolutely your favorite and that works for you.


text:
(© amazing studio - stock.adobe.com)
New antibiotic-infused cement for bones created to combat infections
by Study Finds
BOSTON — A new antibiotic-infused cement for bones has been created to combat infections and could revolutionize hip and knee replacements. The new "highly effective" medicine promises to get to the core of bacterial bone infections and proves potent against antibiotic-resistant strains.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital say the medicinal cement precisely targets the infection site and delivers the antibiotic to the bone tissue through the bone cement. Common antibiotics don't precisely target infections, which means huge doses are necessary, in turn creating drug resistance and destroying beneficial bacteria.
Preventing antibiotic resistance is an increasingly important problem to tackle. Because of the world's aging population more and more people are having knee and hip replacements, which can result in bacterial infections such as Staphylococcal — currently treated with regular antibiotics.
The new antibiotic, developed by Brigham and Women's Hospital, trumps all the antibiotic-loaded bone cements used against Staphylococcal in a rat model.
"Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only approved of bone cements loaded with antibiotics not originally developed for bone tissue," says Hae Lin Jang, PhD, co-director of the Brigham's Center for Engineered Therapeutics and principal investigator of the Laboratory for Developing Advanced Biomaterials and Biotechnologies, in a university release.
"In addition to not being bone tissue-specific, resistance has emerged against these antibiotics. We must create a new generation of antibiotics that are optimized to meet this emerging need."
How did scientists create the cement?
The team announced shortlisted molecules to design the antibiotics and maximize drug resistance and settled on the dual-action antibiotic VCD-077. It maintains the stability of the bone cement while being highly effective against drug-resistant bacteria strands, slowing the development of future resistance.
However, before it is found in clinics, the team has to confront two major limitations: rat models versus humans, and necessary toxicity studies. Nonetheless, they think the future is bright for tissue-specific localized treatment, such as bone infections that minimize invasiveness.
By focusing on tissue-specific antibiotics from the outset, they are on the right track to create a medicine that tackles bacterial infection precisely without producing drug resistance.
"The future lies in mixing artificial intelligence and drug discovery to make developing new antibiotics more efficient and cost-effective than ever before," says co-corresponding author Shiladitya Sengupta, PhD, co-director of the Brigham's Center for Engineered Therapeutics. "Interdisciplinarity in our approach and specificity in our drug development will truly bring about a new medical engineering paradigm."
"Treatment may be getting more complicated, and bacteria may be getting more sophisticated, but us biomedical engineers are getting more sophisticated, too."
The findings are published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.
South West News Service writer Pol Allingham contributed to this report.
Tags: antibiotic-resistant bacteria, bacterial infections, bone health, infections, joint replacement, knee replacement, medicine
Study Finds sets out to find new research that speaks to mass audiences — without all the scientific jargon. Study Finds has been writing and publishing articles since 2016.
View Study's article archive
Plastic contamination can make a family sick for generations, study warnsJanuary 27, 2023
Best Of The Best TV Soundbars: Top 5 Speakers Most Recommended By ExpertsJanuary 27, 2023
Relationship Research News
Best city for dating is in Virginia? Here's where singles in America should be looking for loveJanuary 27, 2023


The Colony tells the story of a young couple, Lena and Daniel, who get entangled in the Chilean military coup in 1973.
The film's producer's received support for development through Creative Europe's Slate funding scheme. It is released in the UK by Signature Entertainment on 1 July.
Set in Palermo, Sicily, The Mafia only Kills in the Summer is an Italian black comedy drama that tells both the sentimental story of Arthur and Flora and the tragic events of the Mafia that took place between the 70s and 90s.
The film received development funding through the previous MEDIA programme as well as support for distribution. Cinefile releases the film in the UK on 1 July.
The Neon Demon was supported by Creative Europe at development stage. Icon release the film in the UK on 8 July.
When brothers Gabriel and Elias discover their late father isn't their biological one, they set out to find him, on the island Ork, in turn discovering the truth about themselves and their family.
Men and Chicken is supported through the Automatic Distribution scheme for its release in Hungary, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is released in the UK by Arrow Films on 15 July.
Co-written by Efthymis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Lobster), Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier is an engaging, deadpan look at the male ego, centred on six men who embark on a series of tests of manhood, while sailing around the Aegean sea.
The film has received support from Creative Europe's Sales Agents scheme and reaches UK screens on 22 July through StudioCanal.
The Commune is a Danish drama, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and set in 1970s Copenhagen, where a couple's experiment in group living reveals faultlines in their own relationship.
Awarded funding for development in 2012, through the previous MEDIA programme, the film has also received support from Creative Europe for its distribution in 19 European countries including the UK, where Curzon Artificial Eye release the film on 29 July.
Based on Elsebeth Egholm's series of novels, Dicte is a Danish TV thriller series featuring a flawed but loveable heroine, Dicte. The series, which had its official UK premiere in June, follows recently divorced Dicte as she returns to her home town of Aarhus with her daughter in tow.
Dicte received support through the TV Programming scheme and is available on demand in the UK through Channel 4's Walter Presents.


How many of you can still remember the yawn-fest from history/social studies class? I was bored out of my gourd during most of my formal education in history. I'd rather weed a cornfield than memorize an endless parade of dates/events/people with whom I had absolutely NO connection.
Ironically, now as a teacher, I adore teaching history. Why? I approach it as a great story, and I use historical fiction to help me tell that story. What better way to make the past come alive than to view it with the relatable eyes of a middle grade peer.
In 5th grade we go on the great adventure of American history. Here are a few of the novels that have helped me bring the days of yore to my students.
What are some of your favorite middle grade historical fiction stories?
We just finished The Sign of the Beaver in our fifth grade class a couple of weeks ago. The students are working on their final project. Several years ago, we read The Fighting Ground.
I also disliked Social Studies when I was younger. The only part that interested me was immigration/Ellis Island. When I attended college, I realized history could be interesting.
Hi Leslie, I hear ya. I hated history when I was a kid, too. Then when I homeschooled my daughters, I took the novel approach. We read books (like the ones you mentioned above)together. It made such a difference.
Okay, I was a nerd and totally loved history as a kid. Probably why I ended up studying it as an adult (well, if you count archaeology...). I remember really loving Sign of the Beaver and Witch of Blackbird Pond. I recently read The Book Thief (and sobbed my eyes out). They are all such awesome books to brings the subject alive for students!
I didn't like history either (married a history Ph.D. though:), until I figured out late that I loved it when it was a by-product of studying literature or art. That way it became a story with a timeline and hooks to hang dates and facts on. But to answer your question, I home schooled my youngest daughter through 4th grade and I loved all her biographies and historical fiction. She did too! The one that sticks, though, is Detectives in Togas--fiction set in Roman times (duh).
I think you marrying a history Ph.D. falls under the category of Karma. I fell for history when I started studying theatre.
I loved history as a kid. It made my imagination go wild.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond is one of my favorites from my childhood.
From recent reads, I enjoyed What I Saw and How I lied by Judy Blundell (40's) and Al Capone Does My Shirts (30's). They're not necessarily history-oriented, but I love the setting.
I love ancient history. But my favorite historical fiction book was Newbery Award winner A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. That was one awesome book!
Ooo, you've listed some good ones! I remember reading Johnny Tremain in sixth grade and it making a huge impression on me. I also love Caddie Woodlawn. I have a deep appreciation for well-told historical fiction--so much research!
Caddie Woodlawn was my daughter's FAVORITE. I show the Disney Johnny Tremain movie every year on the last week of school, and the liberty song is stuck in my head for a month.
I was bored with history during school, but now I love it. My favorite time was visiting Washington D.C., Mount Vernon, and Gettysburg as an adult, and soaking up all that amazing history.
Hmm, you're email just got to me today. Anyway, The Witch At Blackbird Pond was my absolute favorite! But in 5th grade we studied the Revolutionary war exclusively. We had this wonderful teacher who had us make a huge project, writing papers on battles and people and draw pictures (Lord those are funny) and I wrote poems Oh how funny those are. And I made my own parchment by tea dying paper then burning the edges. It was the most fun I ever had learning. I still have that project. The Boston Tea party was my favorite story that I wrote up in it. I'm surprised I didn't staple tea bags all over it! It took a lot of time, not one of those to be done at the last minute, but sometimes I wish school projects were like that again.
I agree with you about boring history teachers! I had one named Mrs. Kossie (she's dead now so I can bash her). Her voice was monotonous to say the least, but what always distracted me from her so-called lessons was her lazy eye. In fact, as a kid it freaked me out of my PF Flyers. I mean, when talking she could look at two students at the same time while focusing on one.
Thankfully, while in college I had a great history professor for two classes. He was animated and would act out scenes. Too, he had a penchant, I believe, for some extravagant hyperbole. Besides, I made two A's in his classes so it's all good.
Entertainment IS crucial to garnering interest from students nowadays, so keep up the good fight.
I think that's the key to history. I hated it unless it was in a movie. Now I love it. The YA I just wrote has a lot of history in it, but it's told as a thriller that I hope is entertaining.
Yes I remember history being hideously boring until I finally had a wonderful European history teacher in high school - and then discovered how much I love history! I've read Number the Stars and The Book Thief but not the others. In the YA book Unearthly, there is a high school history teacher that got the students involved by assigning them historical roles throughout the class - what fun!!!
Thanks for the validation. I was worried I was the only one bored and doodling all over my history notes.
Oh, what I wouldn't have done to have a passionate history teacher like you! From what I can remember (which is very little) we studied dates and more dates. Ugh.
I did not like History but now I love reading Historical Romances!
History was always one of my favorite classes. I guess I'd pick Harriet Tubman or Little House on the Prairie. Does that count?
I loathed history at school to, but I came to love it at college. My teacher there was awesome!
I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Hmmmmm.
Yes, I do remember being bored to tears during history class. I would have enjoyed it a lot more if we'd been able to read fiction books as part of the classwork! I don't read much historical fiction, but I did learn about a period of history I previously knew nothing about by reading Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson.
I forgot about the My Name is America and Dear America series. I've read the diary entries in real time at the beginning of social studies classes. It's a quick and easy way to make the time period more real.
Fever 1793. I liked that one a lot. I also love all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, which are lightly fictionalized.
Laurie Halse Anderson also wrote a book about Valley Forge. We didn't read any historical fiction in elementary or middle school. That might have helped. When my son gets to 5th grade, I hope his teacher is as cool as you!


text:
Joe's Garage
Posted on March 10, 2022 April 21, 2022 by Audiophile Musings from the Music Corner Posted in Long Reads, The Music Corner
I can't think of anything close to Joe's Garage outside the Zappa catalogue. To describe it as a Rock Opera brings all sorts of slightly yukkie stuff to my mind so I will resist the temptation to categorise it at all. Yes, lyrically it's smutty, a bit embarrassing at times, certainly crude, explicit and likely not entirely suitable for kids or those of a woke nature. Yet, nothing in comparison to the music that carries an 'Explicit' warning on the Tidal streaming service. It's all the politically charged things that Frank intended it to be and every so often I feel the urge to revisit it. It's hard to dip in and out of so I usually play it front to back in its entirety and I always come away with a reinforced admiration for it and Frank himself. There's never been a musician/composer like him and I have doubts that there ever will be. It was originally released back in 1979 as a two-parter on vinyl but after digitisation found itself marketed as a triple album box set (Acts 1,2 and 3) in '87.
A musical laser
You will never hear a bad musician on a Zappa album. No matter how weird or controversial the material, Zappa was a musical laser and absolutely demanded the very best from those he played and recorded with. Check out Steve Vai's YouTube clip of his audition for the band. Anybody who thought Frank was some sort of comedy figure would be very wrong. He was a fiercely committed musician, composer and arranger with a huge breadth of accomplishments and an opinion on just about everything. It's this level of musicianship and sheer complexity that drove him from the early days and in all its guises and has helped give his music such breadth and longevity. He sadly died in 1993 but his whole unique style and all round musical abilities have endured.
Joe's Garage is one of his best for me, very possibly because I am a sucker for concept albums where one song runs into another to build the unfolding story. One must always remember to use the American pronunciation of the word Garage though. To say it in the accepted U.K. English form just sounds so wrong. Weird but very true.
I could hardly say that the premise of the album is simple. Very little of what Frank did ever was. In fact, he seemed to often delight in complication. But, just about everything he played, even his noodling, was recorded and his cut 'n paste style was way before its time. As for the recording? Well, it was remastered digitally and this is the CD version I have been listening to. Actually, I think it is a remarkable piece of work technically if little 'sudden' tonally. A little bright perhaps but it matters little.
The story of Joe
The story will be broadly recognisable to anyone who ever joined an electric band as a youngster. It is presented in three acts. Joe's Garage is the Canoga Park, Los Angeles location for this particular band to practice and where Joe's story begins. Hours of thrashing about, showing off, laughing hysterically, having arguments, making-up and being constantly harassed by parents and irate neighbours screaming "Turn it down!". It's all part of what, particularly in hindsight, seems like it must have been fun. I was lucky enough to walk that road with a bunch of loveable crazies who used to rehearse wherever they could find space, including Dave's dad's garage in south London. We made a lot of noise, had a great drummer and Sax player who was reluctant to show just how excellent he was, became seriously and embarrassingly over-indulgent and ludicrously extravagant doing Santana covers and of course went nuts and had a lot of fun. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
The story of Joe is crazy when viewed in the cold detachment of today and his part is played by the fantastic Ike Willis whose vocals are brilliantly and soulfully expressive and plaintive throughout. From humble rehearsals in the garage, Joe, a lead guitarist who plays a "Stratocaster with a whammy bar" and his band slowly move up the ladder of the club scene where they fully indulge themselves in the freedoms that existed at that time. The story is told (by Zappa) in the guise of The Central Scrutinizer, a rather creepy character who slips in and out to narrate Joe's rise and obvious and inevitable decline. The establishment finds Joe guilty of indulging himself rather too graphically with a computerised sex-machine after giving all his money to L. Ron Hoover the leader of the First Church Of Appliantology (yes, I know). He learns German for some unexplained reason and discovers that he is nothing less than a Latent Appliance Fetishist. He indulges his condition rather too freely on Sy Borg, with disastrous consequences during one of the best pieces on the album and is subsequently arrested among wailing Police sirens for his grotesque misdemeanours.
Sentenced to jail, Joe finds all sorts of strange stuff going down. The Central Scrutinizer assures us that music is a very bad influence on mankind and Joe's story is an object lesson of the slippery slope that all who tread the musical path must surely eventually suffer. While in prison he spends time with other convicted musicians, learns to snort detergent and other explicit horrors. Joe is abused by music executives while in prison and sinks into The Twilight World Of `his Own Secret Thoughts " while " Dreaming of guitar notes that would irritate an executive kinda guy".
Joe, some might say, learns his lesson and Outside Now (another triumph for Ike Willis' really sensational vocal performance throughout the album), shows his utter desperation at the path he has chosen as he lays on his cell bed. Being Zappa, this is all very political of course. Frank was vehemently anti-establishment though I am sure he just considered himself anti-stupidity.
The finale
The finale and Joe's fate is left hanging but the story just about culminates in Watermelon In Easter Hay, a truly splendid and grand instrumental that Dweezil, Frank's son, believes to be his greatest guitar solo, extended through the song as it is. It certainly features a great guitar sound, presumably from his Strat and is covered in reverbs and echo which give it a kind of epic feel with plenty of the depth and scale appropriate to end what has gone before. Harmonically, I would describe it as bitter-sweet and rather ordered, conventional even, for a Zappa solo. It's very clean so listen to it loud is my advice. The very last and some might say, odd number is A Little Green Rosetta. Make of it what you will.
A unique guitarist
Zappa, who was, in my opinion a rather unique type of guitarist himself, rarely seemed interested in a wall of sound or thick, heavy-duty rock chords and oppressive character recordings. He was often about lightweight translucence and clarity, interjected with obscure bursts of edgy distorted machine-gun speed riffs. He loved great playing, always, always featured fantastic vocalists and intriguing arrangements and that's what he produced. Joe's Garage is an object lesson in that. It's just not like any other music outside the Zappa catalogue, as truly extensive as that is.
The whole of Joe's lunatic journey is bizarre, but there are some killer tracks on there and some of the best playing right through the band that I've ever heard with depths of musical complexity and interwoven arrangements that are intriguing and certainly challenging. It must be said that it is not always easy listening. As we step into 2022 it seems both interesting and somewhat quaint to me. No doubt Frank would have smiled rather cynically at that description but I will listen right through yet again a few times this year.
Whether you are a Zappa fan or not I'd urge you to take an hour, turn it up and give it a go.


text:
Home News General Coronavirus Conditions Critical, University Deans in Iran Warn
Coronavirus Conditions Critical, University Deans in Iran Warn
many indicators and individuals say the country is still in a critical condition. In reality, the supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani are justifying their horrible decision about returning people to workplaces and resuming financial activities by misleading the society.
In this respect, the state-run Jahan-e Sanat daily revealed the mullahs' desire from reopening economic, sport, and cultural centers. "We have adopted a procedure for all the people being infected with the virus. As an outcome, stronger people will return to normal life, but weak people will be sacrificed," Jahan-e Sanat wrote on May 12.
In line with the Iranian regime's policy about concealing the real scope of the coronavirus crisis, the Health Ministry announced that as of May 15, merely 6,902 citizens have succumbed to the COVID-19 disease. On the same day, popular reports tallied by the Iranian opposition, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), exposed that alone in the capital Tehran, at least 6,930 people have lost their lives of the coronavirus.
Furthermore, according to the MEK's statement, the actual number of the coronavirus death toll is approximately by a factor of six. "Over 41,700 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 318 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Friday afternoon local time, May 15," the MEK stated.
"The death toll in various provinces include 6,930 in Tehran, 2,590 in Mazandaran, 2,475 in Khuzestan, 1,230 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 1,025 in Fars, 990 in Kermanshah, 495 in Zanjan, 470 in North Khorasan, and 182 in Hormozagan. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces," the MEK's statement added.
MEK: Iran's President Claims Success While Over 41,500 People Have Died of Coronavirus
Deans of Iranian Medical Science Universities Reveal Truth About Coronavirus
In the past couple of days, several deans and deputy deans of medical science universities in different provinces raised alarms about the critical condition of the COVID-19.
On May 12, the deputy dean of the Kerman Medical Sciences University Seyyed Vahid Ahmadi Tabatabai talked about a significant increase in coronavirus cases across Kerman province with the state-run Mehr news agency. "On average, we have discovered more than 30 new coronavirus patients each day," Tabatabai said.
In Khuzestan, the province that has been become the main COVID-19 hotspot after resuming financial activities, hospitals face a shortage of beds for admitting new patients. "The Razi and Taleghani hospitals and parts of the Milad and Amir al-Momenin hospitals, and one block of Sina hospital in Ahvaz have been allocated to coronavirus patients," the state-run Hamshahri daily quoted acting dean of the Jondishapur Medical Science University in Khuzestan Farhad Aboulnejad as saying on May 12.
In Zahedan, southeast Iran, the deputy dean of the local Medical Sciences University Qassem Miri Aliabad, said in an interview with a state-run T.V. Channel, "There has been an unprecedented rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Sistan & Baluchistan Province during the past 24 hours."
On May 14, the dean of Hormozgan Medical Sciences University Dr. Hossein Farshidi said, "The increase of coronavirus cases in the past week is alarming. If the rising trend of cases continues, we will have to reconsider the reopening," according to ISNA news agency.
Also, the dean of Lorestan Medical Sciences University Mohammad Reza Nikbakht told Mehr news agency, "In the past 24 hours, 110 people have been added to coronavirus patients in Lorestan."
On the same day, the dean of Ardebil Medical Sciences University Dr. Shahram Habibzadeh said, "From a coronavirus spread standpoint, this province is still in red [critical] status," according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
On May 15 Tasnim news agency aired a report of the dean of Mazandaran Medical Science Seyyed Abbas Mousavi writing, "The dean of Mazandaran Medical Sciences University reported of the hospitalization of 70 new coronavirus patients."
Furthermore, on May 14, the state-run Fars news agency quoted Massoud Mardani, a member of the national Coronavirus Task Force, as saying, "Now that the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise every day, we should not await a drop in the fatality rates… The number of coronavirus infections is rising."
Who Is the Godfather of the Medicine Mafia in Iran?
Iran Coronavirus
Previous articleCoronavirus Crisis in South Iran
Next articleIran – Issuance of financial securities "perilous" and "unsustainable"
Tehran's Mysterious Investigation Failed After Two Years
Flash Floods Ravage Iran Once Again With the Iranian Regime Failing To Help Victims
Iranian Regime Mourns the Death of Top Terrorist Soleimani on the Second Anniversary of His Elimination
Friend and Supporter of the Iranian Resistance, U.S Senator Harry Reid Has Passed Away


Introducing Borneo Beach Villas 4*, which used to be part of the Nexus Resort. From 2014, it has been classified as a block of suites and villas for affordable prices.
We'd like to make a note on the wonderful comparison of the quality of the hotel to its prices. For instance, similar villas on Langkawi island would cost approximately $300 per night.
Located in a picturesque spot nearby the city of Kota Kinabalu, this hotel will give you a splendid beach vacation on the coast of the South-China sea.
The hotel encompasses 25 Luxe suites and 30 Villas with one or two bedrooms, and a fantastic view of the ocean. Every Luxe suite is equipped with a jacuzzi, and every Villa has a small swimming pool, providing every guest with ultimate comfort.
A cozy restaurant is located in the hotel's territory, as well as an outdoor pool and a golf course, which belongs to the Nexus hotel.
Convenient hotel location, just 25 driving minuts from the city center. It is very convenient to reach those attractive places or to enjoy local or european cuisine at the city quay restaurants for the guests.
The hotel is conveniently located a 25-minute drive away from the city center, which allows guests to easily get to all the popular tourist attractions or enjoy local and Western cuisine by the seafront.
For a maximum comfort, tourists can rent a car during their stay on the island. The car rental would cost approximately $30 per night.